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Jack Kilby, IC Inventor, Dies

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Jack Kilby, engineer and inventor of the integrated circuit, the electronic calculator, and the thermal printer, passed away on June 20th following a brief battle with cancer.

During a stoppage at the Texas Instruments plant in 1958, Mr. Kilby did not have the seniority to take some vacation time. Left behind in the office, instead of playing office chair hockey or foosball, on September 12th 1958 he demonstrated the first successful integrated circuit.

So how's your Nobel-prize winning work coming along?

Jack Kilby, IC Inventor, Dies [eWeek]


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